it takes barely any CPU at all to run and just works. It was originally hooked to a 2012 Mini and is now hooked to a 2017 imac 5k with a TB3 to TB2 adapter. I have a 4-bay Thunderbay Thunderbolt 2 version and have been running it for maybe two or three years. Question (finally!): Has anyone here used the earlier OWC ThunderBay boxes and what were your experiences? The drives I will be using are 10TB HGST He10.
On the plus side ARECA appears to be very heavy enterprise level equipment and is well respected.Īt Lloyd Chambers recommendation I am now also looking at the OWC ThunderBay 6, Also a six bay box which uses SoftRaid as a RAID controller and can set it up for RAID 6. This being a hardware RAID I have been advised that all of the drives have to match. I have also looked at the Areca 8050U3-6, a 6 bay Thunderbolt 3 box which is a hardware RAID solution. So far I have been considering a Drobo 5D3 (I know the horror stories some people have had with Drobo's "bricking", but I haven't had any of those problems and am currently using a 5 year old 5D and I am not getting the speed I'd like even though i have 128gb MSATA in the cache bay and 7200rpm drives.) I like that like the 5D I can set up the 5D3 with dual drive redundancy (Drobo's version of RAID 6) and swap out smaller capacity driives for larger ones as the need arises. Preface: I am deep into my search for a new DAS (not NAS) mass storage unit.